I want to immediately reset (as it resets when I push reset button on computer case) or immediately turn off PC (as if unplugged from power grid) but with some method inside Windows. Maybe I can kill ...

The way I see it: there are two ways to encrypt data for a web app.
1) Store a single encryption key on the server, and use it to encrypt / decrypt data at runtime. The obvious issue here is that if ...

After my old PC kicked the bucket I now own my first UEFI board and I am already having trust issues. I utilized Truecrypt's system encryption for years now and really got used to it. My new board has ...

I think we all know the fact that boot-harddrives can be encrypted.
Windows usually uses Bitlocker (relying on AES-CBC) and Linux / Unix usually uses dm-crypt (relying on AES-CBC) and the rest of the ...

One of the problems of disk encryption is providing authentication. An attacker with access to the ciphertext can modify the ciphertext at will without consequence. Given, this isn't a likely attack, ...

I am having a debate with several people regarding how much protection full disk encryption provides. dm-crypt is being used to encrypt data which is required by my company to be encrypted at rest. ...

I just learned about Kon Boot (from this YouTube video) and am wondering, how is such a hack tool guarded against? In the video the presenter claimed he had full disk encryption but was still able to ...

Due to TrueCrypt being pulled from the web even though it's been audited, I was asked to compare the audit of TrueCrypt against audits and information available for other products that do whole disk ...

I recall hearing this before, the ability to boot up a Windows PC with an unencrypted hard drive using an installation disk/usb, and use the command line utility on the Windows installation disk to ...

Since laptop and other electronic device seizures at US borders became legal without a warrant (including making copies of data), 7% of ACTE's business travelers reported being subject to a seizure as ...

I have multiple computers, tablets, etc. If I have a very secure key, is there any problem with using it to encrypt all of my systems? I can remember 1 or 2 secure keys without writing them down. But ...

Is there any way to encrypt a linux filesystem in such a way to maintain plausible deniability? E.g. "Hidden OS support," the way Truecrypt and Veracrypt work, they only support Windows OS due to low ...

I have at my workstation, an ubuntu 14.04 installation with full disk encryption. I now have to travel frequently for days and am planning to ssh into this machine from my chromebook to work remotely.
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Are there any security issues of having no (or weak) passwords for user and root account on a single user system with full disk encryption (except boot partition)? Assuming no SSH server is running, ...

Title says it all really.
I'm toying with the idea of storing some disk images in "the cloud", but am concerned about the possibility of an attacker manipulating cipertext to do evil things once it's ...

My SSD is currently encrypted by bitlocker right now. So let say if I leave my laptop on locked state (Win+L). Is it possible for someone to get access to my data?
Few thing I noted are:
If someone ...

After upgrading to Android L on my Nexus 5, I was pleased to find that I can enable encryption using a pattern as the passphrase.
However, it soon got me thinking. I'm guessing the encryption key is ...

I can't think of a reason as to why you'd want to create a hidden volume in VeraCrypt. It says because "you may be asked to hand the information," but why would I need to hand it over? Nobody has any ...

Hypothetical: a Windows 7 or 8 computer has a self-encrypting hard drive. It is stolen with the power on, but with the Windows lockscreen on. Are there easy off-the-shelf ways to access the data on ...

Let us say I have a volume encrypted under LUKS with a 512-bit key. That would mean there are 2 ^ 512 possible values which the key may be.
Now I need a passphrase which is at least as resistant to ...

I've come to find Full Disk Encryption to be a rather unsafe method of securing data as standardized tools are becoming available to just read out the encryption key from RAM, where the system needs ...

I've created a few encrypted devices with LUKS and cryptsetup on Linux and am pretty comfortable with disk encryption in this regard.
I've seen it mentioned in many different places that when setting ...

I want to fully encrypt a disk on Windows 7, but I don't trust Bitlocker and Truecrypt has announced it is not safe (also many rumours about NSA being able to decrypt it and it's better to avoid it).
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I am wondering about LUKS nuke patch efficiency.
In fact, I think I don't really understand it.
From what I know of LUKS, a passphrase is used to encrypt a random key (the master key), which is used ...

I have all my backup hard drives encrypted with LUKS. Currently, the passphrase is some 25+ random password that I store in my password manager KeePassX. Since I have the backup drives for the case ...